Top Features
Ease of Use
- Dockable Object Manager to easily Show or Hide Plots on Graph
- Clone Graph from Graph Template
- Switch Layer or Create New, and Move Plot Order in a Group in Layer Contents Dialog
- Set Units and Scientific tick label display in Tools: Options.
- Easier Way to Annotate Graph with Data or Label in Worksheet and Project&Window Information
- Customize what label to display with Annotation tool. Besides coordinates and row index, support using column metadata or worksheet cell to annotate plot.
- Define and access Project Variables in Set Column Values dialog.
- Edit: Select... to select or hide columns by column label row or by skipping columns to easily plot and analyze selected data.
- Nested Sorting in Project Explorer
Graphing
- New Template Library dialog with User-defined graph templates only.
- New Axis scale type: Dataset to support skip weekend and holidays in financial plots
- Multi-line spacing for text label in graph
- Legend and Color Scale improvements such as legend text follow symbol color, show color scale as blocks of colors and their corresponding range
- Add Additional Line at non-zero position to plot column/bar plots from non-zero baseline easily
- Set each layer's width or height proportional to its axis range in multi-layer graph
- Customize graph window name with column, workbook and sheet information in Batch Plot
Analysis
- Word template for report creation
- Batch Process improvements: set Script Before Process, and append results by columns.
- PA Improvements to save better themes for Batch PA Processing: Snap to Spectrum; Relative Baseline; Sequentially Initializing Parameter Values
Statistics
- New statistics such as Three-way ANOVA, Partial Correlation, Cross Tabulation
- Improvements such as Means comparison on interaction combinations in two-way ANOVA and t-Test for summarized data.
Import and Export
- Send Graphs to PowerPoint Tool Improvements to allow specify what graphs to send and in what order. Insert new slides for each graph and copy start slide style to easily sending graphs to a pre-defined Powerpoint file or template.
- Support Script after import and setting Column Plot Designation for more import rountines
- Support more 3rd party data file formats
Programming
- R language. R Console or RServe Console
- Labtalk Script speed improvements.
Addon Tools for 2016
We will continue to make more Add-in tools available for Origin 2016. To find out what is available, visit the File Exchange page of originlab.com.
- Insert LaTex Equation.
- Object Identification
- Solve Ordinary Differential Equations
- Shape file support.
- Easily add a map as background image on a graph. Maps are obtained from free online services.